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Date:         Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:57:32 +0100
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From: Chris Rowley <c.a.rowley@OPEN.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: e-TeX low-level expertise needed Re: Allocation of registers
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Aha, Morten The Scientist!!   Thanks for the data.

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From: Morten Høgholm <morten.hoegholm@GMAIL.COM>
Date: 16/09/2010 11:39
Subject: Re: e-TeX low-level expertise needed Re: Allocation of registers

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Frank Mittelbach
<frank.mittelbach@latex-project.org> wrote:
> Chris Rowley writes:
>
>  > A vaguer question: Is the level of the relatively efficiency of the types
>  > of register of any practical consequence in the 21st century?
>
> I was wondering about that too, guess the only way to find out is to make some
> experiments

I carried out some experiments with this a few years ago and found the
count registers from the extended pool to be only slightly slower (5%
or so) than the ones from the normal pool.


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Morten
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